"Then all of a sudden it turned inappropriate and he was texting me things that made me uncomfortable and I got scared," the KAKE anchor said.

Considering applying for protection from Pleviak stalking her, Farris went to the Wichita Police Department in March, with officers photographing nearly 200 screenshots of correspondences between the two of them.

Regarding why the station decided not to report the story when Farris first went to the police in March or when Pleviak was indicted in July, Maisel explains that their main priority was her safety, suggesting they were worried the ICE Agent could become violent.

"There is a difference between being a source and providing information for the good of the public and for a source to go off the rails and become a threat," he said.

"What people tell us is in confidence and we don't share that information with anybody. But if that source became an unstable source, certainly we would look out for the welfare of our reporters."

Pleviak and fellow ICE agents were previously accused in a 2014 civil lawsuit of beating a college student from Kenya with an expired visa. The student, Justine Mochama, claimed he was assaulted for refusing to be fingerprinted before deportation.

Released surveillance video of the incident shows Mochama getting wrestled to the ground at the Butler County Detention Facility as agents attempt to restrain him, with the man claiming he was punched in the stomach and had his head slammed onto the floor.

After three years in the court system, the lawsuit was dismissed.

Now facing two counts of exceeding authorized access to a government computer and one count of destruction of records in a federal investigation, Pleviak has been in jail after he allegedly violated his bond conditions.

Two days after police officers spoke with Farris, Pleviak was reportedly ordered by his supervisor to hand over his work iPhone, but it's unclear if he still works for the government agency or if he's been suspended.